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How do we define an ambitious vs a non-ambitious idea? How many people here are working on ideas that may not seem ambitious on the surface, but with long-term
by pedalpete 15y ago
How do we define an ambitious vs a non-ambitious idea?
How many people here are working on ideas that may not seem ambitious on the surface, but with long-term goals that are very ambitious?
- prgibbons 15y agoThe size of the market and obstacles in the way. For example, K-College education in the U.S. is about a $1 trillion a year economy. Government and self-interested trade organizations stands in the way of disruption (they don't want to be disrupted they want to keep their jobs at the expense of everyone else).
- pedalpete 15y agoI think I have to disagree with your logic. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter would not have been considered ambitious. They mostly created their own markets or were so early to a market that had huge potential that they didn't have significant market size or 'obstacles in the way'.
- jt2190 15y agoThis is a very good point. For example, would Google have been considered ambitious (trying to dislodge the dominant search engines) or conservative (launching into an established market)?